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Product Description
Petrified Wood Forest Floor Polished Round Slab Sunnyside, Washington
This is a beautiful piece of very rare and very unique Petrified Forest Floor with twigs, leaves, and seeds from Sunnyside, Washington.
In the middle of the Miocene epoch, about 17.5 million years ago, volcanic eruptions occurred near the borders of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Forests were covered by lava and ash, resulting in numerous deposits of fossilized wood across the Columbia Plateau.
This is an example of the forest floor, littered with twigs, seeds, and cones, that actually was buried in these lava flows and “petrified” or “mineralized” into stone.
It is 7.75 inches by 5.5 inches and 8 mm thick.
Tsuga sp. refers to a genus of coniferous trees commonly known as hemlocks.
The Sunnyside area is in Yakima Canyon, primarily north of Sunnyside and in the Rattlesnake Hills and on private property. The area has been closed to collecting for over 30 years.
This petrified wood piece is from the Kirkby collection and was self-collected sometime in the 1930's to the 1960's.
